According to various blog posts my StarCraft 2 patching issues are because I am running a case-sensitive filesystem. I saw this stupid issue before with Steam. This is extremely frustrating and I can’t believe I have to work around it. They don’t even offer a manual patch package I can download and try. I found [...]View full post

I picked up StarCraft 2 tonight @ 8:00pm. It’s 1:00 am and I still haven’t been able to play it. It’s going back to the store tomorrow. I spend my weekdays troubleshooting software and have no desire to do so on the weekends. I needed to vent, here’s how it goes down: I first read [...]View full post

I’ve had some downtime between Firefox releases and chose to work on a pet project on-and-off for the past week. I’m announcing it today as bugzilla-amqp. What is bugzilla-amqp? A server-side Bugzilla extension that sends messages to a message broker via AMQP whenever a Bugzilla object (bug, keyword, component, etc) is created or modified. Why? [...]View full post

This is going around the internet but it’s awesome. Carl Burguess took stock footage from Getty and made a music video. So awkward and creepy it’s good. Song’s not too bad as well. Ratatat – Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo.View full post

Just a reminder that code freeze for Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12 is TOMORROW @ 11:59 pm Pacific time. If you have any bugs in these queries, we need your attention on them ASAP: Firefox 3.6.9 blocking bugs that do not have an approved patch Firefox 3.5.12 blocking bugs that do not have an approved patch [...]View full post